Lord Huron - Strange Trails Album Lyrics

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Love Like Ghosts

Yes I know that love is like ghosts
Oh, few have seen it, but everybody talks
Spirits follow everywhere I go
Oh they sing all day and they haunt me in the night
Oh they sing all day and they haunt me in the night

Yes I know that love is like ghosts
Oh, and what ain't living can never really die
You don't want me baby please don't lie
Oh but if you're leaving, I gotta know why
I said if you're leaving, I gotta know why
Oh I sing all day and I love you through the night

Yes I know that love is like ghosts
Oh and the moonlight baby shows you whats real
There ain't a language for the things I feel
And if I can't have you then no one ever will
Oh, if I can't have you then no one ever will

I don't feel it till it hurts sometimes
Oh go on baby, hurt me tonight
I want ours to be an endless song
Baby in my eyes you do no wrong
I don't feel it till it hurts sometimes
So go on baby hurt me tonight
All the spirits that I know I saw
Do you see no ghost in me at all
Oh I sing all day and I love you through the night
Oh I sing all day and I love you through the night
Oh I sing all day and I love you through the night
Oh I sing all day and I love you through the night

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Until The Night Turns

I had a vision tonight that the world was ending.
And the sky was falling and time was bending.
I watched the heavens collide right before my eyes.

What if the world dies with the sunrise?
Baby it's all right we'll be up all night
What if we're unmade when the stars fade?
Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day.

I had a visitor come from the great beyond.
Telling me our time in the world is done,
and to watch for a sign in the midnight sky.

What if the world dies with the sunrise?
Baby it's all right we'll be up all night
What if we're unmade when the stars fade?
Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day.

What if the world dies with the sunrise?
Baby it's all right we'll be up all night
What if we're unmade when the stars fade?
Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day.

We wait for the sunrise.
We watch as the world dies.
We howl in the moonlight.
When the World Ender comes, baby don't close your eyes.
We wait for the sunrise.
We wait for the sunrise.

I had a vision tonight that the world was ending
Yeah the sky was falling and time was bending
We spent our last night in the moonlight
Baby it's so bright we'll be up all night.
I got a helluva view for the end of the world
I've got a bottle of booze and a beautiful girl.
If I'm a'­goin to die I'm gonna go in style.

What if the world dies with the sunrise?
Baby it's all right we'll be up all night
What if we're unmade when the stars fade?
Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day.

What if the world dies with the sunrise?
Baby it's all right we'll be up all night
What if we're unmade when the stars fade?
Keep me going 'til the night turns into the day...

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Dead Man's Hand

Yellow lines in the dead of the night, I was heading back out west.
Trying to keep my eyes open wide, I'd gone days without any rest.
Saw him lying in the road looking bad about 20 yards ahead.
You come back from a trip to the east but you don't come back from the dead.

Sure as hell he was dead as they come and he was already starting to smell.
Just a kid with his hair slicked back and a knife tucked into his belt.
Was he unforgiven or just tired of living a life that never felt like his?
Though I was was worn and weary, I thought I'd bury him
and lay his soul to rest out in the desert night.

I laid him down in a grave in the sand
and he grabbed my arm with his dead man's hand.
He said: "I know I'm dead but I don't wanna lie
in a grave out here where the coyote's cry.

I stared right into the endless void
and I ain't going back if I got any choice.
I know how to live, I don't know how to die
and there ain't no thrills in the afterlife.

So lift me up out of here my friend
and I'll wander the night 'til the ages end."
Lit by the moon he walked through the sand
and he waved goodbye with his dead man's hand.

He will roam forever, haunting the desert.
He will roam forever, haunting the desert.

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Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)

I get a thrill outta playing with fire
Cause you hold your life when you hold that flame.
I get a kick outta thunder and lightning and
tearing through the night hollering your name

I get a laugh outta starin' at darkness
And wondering why people live in the light.
I drive fast and I rumble the hardest
I don't feel alive if I ain't in the fight.

I can't sleep when there's something to do
You spend your whole life dreaming and you wake up dead.
It's a long night can I spend it with you
Cause you're oh so pretty when you stand on the edge.

Oh little darlin' don't you look charming
Here in the eye of a hurricane.
Real or imagined - what does it matter?
Come inside, can I get you to stay?

Oh little darlin' don't you like falling down
Through the sky like a diving plane.
Real or imagined - what does it matter?
Come inside, can I get you to stay?

What is life? Only visions.
When I die, I'm coming right on back for you.
Who am I? An illusion.
Would I lie? I'm coming right on back for you.

Oh little darlin' don't you look charming
Here in the eye of a hurricane.
Real or imagined - what does it matter?
Come inside, can I get you to stay?

Oh little darlin' don't you get lonely.
Look in my eyes gimme one more day.
Real or imagined - what does it matter?
Come inside, can I get you to stay?

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La Belle Fleur Sauvage

What you're looking for won't be found easily
It grows upon the mountain in a sacred place
Up beyond the clouds, in ancient ground, so they say
And many men have died trekking up that away

Once he's gazed upon her, a man is forever changed
The bravest men return with darkened hearts and phantom pain
Ages come and go but her life goes on the same
She lives to see the sun and feel the wind and drink the rain

Her colors change to mark the passing of the days
No Earthly sight can match the beauty she displays
And when I die I want her lying by my side
In my grave, in my grave

I'd give it all to love that girl
I'll be the one to pluck that fleur

I'm meant to find the place where all good things begin
To smell her scent and watch her dancing in the wind
And when I die I want her lying by my side
In my grave, in my grave

I'd give it all to love that girl
I'll be the one to pluck that fleur
I'd give it all to love that girl
I'll be the one to pluck that fleur

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Fool For Love

I'm leaving this place behind
And I'm heading out on the road tonight
I'm off for the hinterlands
Way up north to have taught you to stand
Before I commence my ride
I'm asking Lily to be my bride
I know there's another man
But he ain't gonna delay my plans

I know she's gonna be my wife
Gonna fall in love I'm gonna live my life with her
You know I bet he's not so tough
Ain't afraid of him cause I'm a fool for love

I've come far to find Big Jim
Well here I am and I guess you him
I see how you got your name
You're tall as hell and broad as a train
They say you a hard-born man
And the baddest guy in the whole wide land
Well I'm not afraid to fight
Let's step outside and I'll show you why

I'm humming like a revved up truck
Never mind the odds I'm gonna try my luck with her
Just tell me when you've had enough
I'm dangerous cause I'm a fool for love

You know you don't hit half bad
For my love I will lay in the grave tonight
Just wait until I catch my breath
Gonna send you off to an early death

I lie in the drifting snow
Bleeding out as it covers me up
If Spring comes before I'm found
Just throw my bones in a hole in the ground

I lost friends along my way
I knew I'd need them eventually
No I'm not afraid to die
Just mad I left Big Jim alive

I know I should've never looked back
But you ain't gonna win a woman's heart like that
I never should've called his bluff
I was born to lose cause I'm a fool for love

I stare into the endless sky
And the sordid tale of my life go by
I drift into the great unknown
I really don't know where I'm going

I stare into the endless sky
And the sordid tale of my life go by
I drift into the great unknown
I really don't know where I'm going

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The World Ender

I had a name but they took it from me
I was the man that I wanted to be
I had a place where I lay my head
They burnt it to the ground and the sky turned red

I had a life and a place in the world
I had a sweet talkin' wife and a beautiful girl
I know I'm never gonna see 'em again
Gonna tear the world up until I have my revenge
They took my life but it isn't the end
They put me in the ground but I'm back from the dead

I'm the World Ender, baby, and I'm back from the grave
They can run for their lives but they cannot be saved
I'm the World Ender, baby, and I'm coming for them
They put me in the ground but I'm back from the dead

You'll hear me howl in the light of the moon
That's how you'll know that I'm coming for you
Gonna find you alone in the dark of night
When the World Ender comes better run for your life

I'll never bleed and I won't ever age
I'll never feel the embrace of the grave
The fair and the brave and the good must die
I seen the other side of living, I know heaven's a lie
I'll tear through the night, and I'll raise some hell
Cause I'm the World Ender, baby and I'm back from the dead

Lord knows I should be pushing daisies
I was 6 feet down, but something raised me up
Sent back for to lift my curse
I'm gonna me a taste of some chaos first
Untied, gonna get little wild
Go screaming through the dark like a demon child
Close your eyes now, the light is fading
and the noise in the night is gonna get a little louder, baby

I'm the World Ender, baby, and I'm back from the grave
They can run for their lives but they cannot be saved
I'm the World Ender, baby, and I'm coming for them
They put me in the ground but I'm back from the dead...

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Meet Me In The Woods

I took a little journey to the unknown,
and I come back changed I can feel it in my bones.
I f*cked with forces that our eyes can't see.
Now the darkness got a hold on me.
Now the darkness got a hold on me.

How long baby have I been away?
Oh, it feels like ages though you say it's only days.
There ain't language for the things I've seen.
And the truth is stranger than my own worst dreams.
The truth is stranger than my own worst dreams.
Now the darkness got a hold on me.

I have seen what the darkness does.
Say goodbye to who I was.
I ain't never been away so long.
Don't look back them days are gone.
Follow me into the endless night.
I can bring your fears to live.
Show me yours and I'll show you mine.
Meet me in the woods tonight.

The truth is stranger than my own worst dreams.
Now the darkness got a hold on me.

I have seen what the darkness does.
Say goodbye to who I was.
I ain't never been away so long.
Don't look back them days are gone.
Follow me into the endless night.
I can bring your fears to live.
Show me yours and I'll show you mine.
Meet me in the woods tonight.

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The Yawning Grave

I know the rain like the clouds know the sky.
I speak to birds and tell them where to fly.
I sing the songs that you hear on the breeze.
I write the names of the rocks and the trees.

Oh you fool, there are rules, I am coming for you.
Darkness brings evil things, oh the reckoning begins.

I tried to warn you when you were a child.
I told you not to get lost in the wilds.
I sent you omens and all kinds of signs.
I taught you melodies, poems and rhymes.

Oh you fool, there are rules, I am coming for you.
You can run but you can't be saved.
Darkness brings evil things, oh the reckoning begins.
You have opened the yawning grave.

Oh you fool, there are rules, I am coming for you.
You can run but you can't be saved.
Darkness brings evil things, oh the reckoning begins.
You have opened the yawning grave.

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Frozen Pines

Deep into the night with the moonlight as my guide
I go wander through the pines and make my way to nature's shrines
and I look up to the sky and I know you're still alive,
but I wonder where you are I call your name into the dark.

I wake up in the morning and I don't know where I've been.
All alone on a mountainside, and huddled in the wind.
And it feels like I've been away for an era but nothing has changed at all.
And it feels like I was with you, but what did we do and where have you gone?

On the night you disappeared, I wish I had seen it clear.
But a strange light in the sky was shining right into my eyes.
There was no one else in sight, just the endless frozen pines.
but I wonder all they know 'cause they don't die and they don't grow.

I am ready to follow you even though I don't know where.
I will wait in the night until you decide to take me there.
Cause I know I don't wanna stay here forever, it's time to be moving on.
I don't wanna be the only one livin' when all of my friends are gone.

I will be waiting for you on the other side of the frozen pines.
I'm gonna find a way through there's another life beyond the line.
I will be waiting for you on the other side of the frozen pines.
I'm gonna find a way through there's another life beyond the line.

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Cursed

What I remember the most is hollering her name
and the sirens wail as we ran like hell down a strange trail
Oh, I wanna know what I did, I wanna know her game.
I wanna learn her wits and how she plays her tricks, oh, I gotta know.

Lots of booze and her kiss
These are drugs that do not mix.
I was under her spell
and today I feel like hell.
She got me going, I guess.
Who knew love would be like this?
Don't know what I'm gonna do
But I guess I gotta see it through.

Cause I don't know how to walk out of this deal.
The spell she cast on me is real.
I don't know how to right the wrongs I've done.
She bends the wills of men for fun.
I don't know how to take my own life back.
Everything she touches turns to black.
I don't know how to fight what I can't see.
That girl has laid a curse on me.

I gotta find me a cure.
I gotta clear my name.
There's gotta be some way
I hope it's not too late
To break the spell.

Yeah,
I want to get her alone.
I want to ask her why.
And look into those eyes
and see the endless night
staring back.

What kind of magic is this?
I was doomed by our first kiss.
Just a pawn in her game
I've done things that have no name.
And she'll make me do worse
If the law doesn't get me first
She has cloaked me in black
And there ain't no turning back.

There are runes on my skin.
They appear when she walks in.
I am bound by her spell.
I am chained to do her will.
I'm a goner, I guess.
Who knew love was gonna be like this?
She has cloaked me in black.
And there ain't no turning back.

Cause I don't know how to walk out of this deal.
The spell she cast on me is real.
I don't know how to right the wrongs I've done.
She bends the wills of men for fun.
I don't know how to take my own life back.
Everything she touches turns to black.
I don't know how to fight what I can't see.
That girl has laid a curse on me.
That girl has laid a curse on me.

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Way Out There

I'm a long way from the land that I left
I've been running through life and cruising toward death
If you think that I'm scared you've got me wrong
If you don't know my name, you'll know it now
I belong bodily to the earth
I'm just wearing old bones from those that came first
There are many more flames when mine is gone
They will build me no shrines and sing me no songs

I'm a long way from the one that I loved
I've been tending old flames, lamenting what was
Drifting in a land time forgot
If you think that I've changed, you know me not
I belong bodily to the earth
I'm just wearing old bones from those that came first
I been unraveling since my birth
Gonna wander out there and see what I'm worth

Find me way out there
there's no road that will lead us back
When you follow the strange trails
they will take you who knows where
If I found a way to stay with you tonight
it would only make me late, for a date I can't escape

Find me way out there
there's no road that will lead us back
When you follow the strange trails
they will take you who knows where
If I found a way to stay with you tonight
it would only make me late, for a date I can't escape

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Louisa

Good for nothing is the name they'll remember me by
done nothin' with my life for no one, I'm just waitin' to die
I turned my back on the world
you know I'd given up on livin' til I met you girl

Then you came into my life with come hither in your eyes
Pulling me outta the grave what a nice surprise
I die when our nights end, but I only stay dead til I see you again

I lie awake in the night just to see another dawn
Used to be the sun was my weakness but them days are gone
I feel your lips on mine
Will you meet me by the river, baby, one more time?

I'll give you what you wanna have, I'll take you where you wanna go
I'm the only man you'll ever need, girl, and now you know
I'll write your name on my skin, as a promise that we'll never be apart again

I feel alive when I'm with you, baby
So tell me that I won't ever be lonely again
Don't wanna die I wanna wander the world with you
and no one else for the rest of my days on this earth.

I turned my back on the world.
I wasn't always like this, girl
Do you know what loneliness does to a man?
Turn him into the walking dead
I may have died but your lovin' raised me.

I feel alive when I'm with you, baby
So tell me that I won't ever be lonely again
You saved my life I just wanna repay you in kind
ain't no one else ever tell you you're beautiful, girl?

I feel alive when I'm with you, baby.
So tell me that I won't ever be lonely again.
Don't wanna die I wanna wander the world with you
and no one else for the rest of my days on this earth

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The Night We Met

I am not the only traveler
who has not repaid his debt
I've been searching for a trail to follow again
take me back to the night we met

and then I can tell myself
what the hell I'm supposed to do
and then I can tell myself
not to ride along with you

I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you
take me back to the night we met
I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you
oh take me back to the night we met

when the night was full or terror
and your eyes were filled with tears
when you had not touched me yet
oh take me back to the night we met

I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you
take me back to the night we met
I don't know what I'm supposed to do haunted by the ghost of you
take me back to the night we met